No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.

That's what does it-- that moment where you think you're lost, and then discover that you're not, that you've never really left. There's something that happens in that incredible tiny no-time, and that something is like the revelation of learning.

Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else.

He got up and walked out, so I missed seeing the powerful sorcerer doing his powerful sorcery, which would have involved him closing his eyes and then, I don't know, maybe taking a deep breath or something.

You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.